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What are life saving treatments?

A life-sustaining treatment, also referred to as a life-sustaining procedure or life-prolonging procedure, is a treatment utilized to prolong or sustain life without reversing the underlying medical condition.

Will I still receive care if I refuse life prolonging measures?

Even if life-sustaining treatments have been refused or stopped, the individual can still receive medical care to treat symptoms such as pain or shortness of breath.

What is considered life sustaining treatment?

Life-sustaining treatment is any treatment that serves to prolong life without reversing the underlying medical condition. Life-sustaining treatment may include, but is not limited to, mechanical ventilation, renal dialysis, chemotherapy, antibiotics, and artificial nutrition and hydration.

What are life sustaining efforts?

Examples of life sustaining measures include artificial nutrition and hydration, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and mechanical ventilation. Depending on the circumstances, dialysis treatments may also be considered life sustaining.

What is the difference between withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment?

While there may be an emotional difference between not initiating an intervention at all and discontinuing it later in the course of care, there is no ethical difference between withholding and withdrawing treatment.

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